[Zen21Tao]

Tonight the old John Candy and Dan Aykroyd movie The Great Outdoors was on. There was a scene where a bear was attacking everyone in the cabin. A neighbor came to the rescue with a SxS double barrel shotgun he had been using as a light stand (complete with a light bulb and lamp shade). To prepare to shoot the bear he plugged the shotgun into the wall and then John Candy shot the bear in the rear end blowing all the fur off the bears behind.

This funny ridiculous moment got me wondering what everyone’s favorite off the wall gun moment in a movie is.

[doggscube]

Mine is the cop in "Silence of the Lambs" that points an uncocked 1911 toward the elevator access hatch when they thought Lecter was up there.

-Jeff

[Zero_DgZ]

In the Matrix, during the lobby scene: Neo is running amok with twin VZ-61's (from the looks of it) that drop buckets of .223 brass. :scrutiny:

[Deanimator]

Pretty much any episode of "Hawaii Five-O" where anti-gunner Jack Lord shoots [from the hip] at the tire of an automobile going 60mph, at a 90deg. angle to him, at 250 yards, HITS it, and blows the tire off the rim... using 158gr. LRN ammo.

[RangerHAAF]

I remember years ago, Phil Donohue was interviewing a female gang member about the type of gun she used to shoot her rivals. He asked her what type of gun she used and she said "a 380", he then replied with a stupid and shocked expression on his face "Wow, a 380 Magnum"!?

Now I know most liberal media types are clueless when it comes to guns, but come on.

[armoredman]

Movie "Rambo", near the end, as he is shooting up the commo center, and they do a close up of the M60 spitting out the painfully obvious BLANK brass! Dunderheads.

[1911JMB]

My pick is The Good The Bad and The Ugly when they have obviously unloaded revolvers. My favorite funny gun scene is when Dammon Waynes shoots up a clothset in Major Payne yelling "Die you clothset monster."

The lethal weapon series also deserves mention, because those are probably the worst movies gun wise that are called action movies. The amount of stupidity and ignorance in those films is just amazing.

[History Prof]

ANY scene where a guy with a full auto runs out of ammo and the gun goes CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK

Musta been the wind-up variety.....:barf:

[Old Fud]

The one that bothered me the most was the climax scene from "Stand by me" where our hero kid fired one shot from a 1911 into the air, and then had to cock his piece to threaten the town bully.

I guess it was because I LIKED that movie so much that
this one GLARING nonsensical thing was so offensive.

Fud

[Justin]

In the old spoof movie Fatal Instinct there's a scene where a woman steps up to a guy on a train, and shoots him about 200 times with a revolver without reloading. That always cracked me up, that the makers of the movie were meta-aware of the typical movie gaffe of guns never running out of ammo.

[Offwhite]

Too many to count - but I still go back to the Last Dragon (I've mentioned this before on another thread) in which Leroy (the hero) is shot in the head with what I remember to be a 1911 .45 & he cathes the bullet with his teeth & its a 9mm still in the casing...ah I always get a nice little chuckle when I think of it.

Also I watched a movie on HBO the other day with Bridget Fonda & she has this big huge handgun & everytime she fires it, instead of of her arms blowing back they magically go forward.

[ball3006]

are storming somewhere or another and after they are in the place, have to rack their shotgun............movie actors that squint their eyes shut when shooting whatever gun they have..........All of the old timey cowboy movies where they are racing along on a horse and "throwing lead".........but, we were kids then and it was cool.......chris3

[Thefabulousfink]

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. The extremely skinny Demi Moore accuratly fires gold plated Desert Eagles, one in each hand, and they kick no more than .380s

Johnny Dangerously.
It's an 88 magnum, it shoots through schools.:D

[ruckus3008]

I can't remember what movie it was (quite a few years ago) but there was a shootout and one guy emptied his mag, dropped the mag, racked the slide and then slid a new mag in and started firing.

[LAR-15]

Armed and Dangerous with John Candy and his '50 caliber revolver' thats only legal in two states and that wasn't one of them

[Zundfolge]

Saw a bad made-for-TV movie a few years ago that was supposed to take place in Viet Nam during the war (with US soldiers)... the main character was packing a Beretta M9 and their unit's "sniper" had a MecTech CCU on a 1911 frame with a cheap BSA Red Dot sight.

Also, in some bad action movie one of the bad guy's lackeys is chasing our hero around a car while packing a 12 ga ... he pumps the thing 2 or 3 times before he finally shoots it.

[geekWithA.45]

One of the James Bond movies, forget which one, where 007 was in a training sim. He's cleaning his P99, by just sort of poking at the locked open action with a bore brush. He's like "doink, doink, doink, oh, there's a bad guy!", loads up and starts blasting away.

[bpisler]

Too many to even list.

[TX1911fan]

I love this series, but they are so stupid when it comes to guns. In every episode, when a gun is raised, there is a click. What the heck is the click? Is the shooter cocking the hammer? They do that one handed, that fast, without us seeing it? Especially on a large semi auto?

But, the best is where Jack Bauer, gun man and super federal agent that he is, has just shot his pistol at someone to scare them. Then, in the next frame, he points it at their head to let them know he means business. THEN, he COCKS it to let them know he REALLY means business. What, did he decock it before? And if so, I guess he didn't really mean business before when he was pointing an uncocked gun? ANd THEN, TO TOP IT ALL OFF, when they finally tell him what he wants to know, he drops the hammer WHILE STILL POINTING THE GUN AT THEM.

I hate Hollywood.

[EddieCoyle]

I've been racking my brain trying to think of a movie or TV show where a gun was used safely and correctly.

[Frankp]

Gun used correctly ? Two movies come to mind, Heat and Ronan... Heat has the best shootout I've ever seen in a movie oh and The Wild Bunch... great movie....

[Thefabulousfink]

I've been racking my brain trying to think of a movie or TV show where a gun was used safely and correctly.

Check out Spatan with Val Kilmer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360009/
He uses some very good gun handling and he allways does a chamber check after he loads a gun.

[John G]

In the movie Crimson Tide, every time anyone moves, shotgun slides are racked (for thrilling effect.) This happens so often, I'm surprised the submariners aren't tripping over all the shells that must be rolling around the deck. :rolleyes:

[wheelgunslinger]

An episode of the twilight zone.
A robber is in the house, hiding in the shadows. The lady of the house drops her stainless revolver and as it falls down the stairs, it discharges. 5 times. And hits the robber with every shot.
ridiculous.

[Black Majik]

Open Range.

Great movie, but there are two parts that come to mind.

1) Costner's revolver that doesn't need to be reloaded

2) Duvall shooting the guy thru the shack with his SxS shotgun and having the guy fly back 50 ft. Great scene though! :D

[bthest86]

Collateral with Tom Cruise has some great gunplay.

Anyway, I liked how in Saving Pvt Ryan, the soldiers behind the concrete wall on Omaha unload their Garands in 3 seconds with no recoil whatsoever.

The universal gun mistake in movies seems to be that 1911s and single-actions are never cocked. Even after racking the slide.

Anyway my vote goes to "Once Upon a time in Mexico" where a guy is sent 15 feet in the air by a shotgun blast.

[Diomed]

wheelgunslinger - Hey, it's the Twilight Zone! It's not supposed to make sense.:D

Was it the original or one of the revivals? I don't remember one like that in the originals...

[EmGeeGeorge]

tommy gunning in Miller's Crossing...

[1911JMB]

I just remembered a scene I stumbled onto on one of the star trek shows. Don't ask me which one, I don't know or care. They were supposed to be in the 30's, and they had 1911's and Thompson's. Somehow, the 1911's were not cocked, and the Thompson's bolts were blatently closed and not moving. No empties were coming out of anything, and they had an infinite supply of ammuntion. :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf:

[AJ Dual]

It was Maxwell Smart, I can't remember if it was a TV episode, or from the "Nude Bomb" movie, but Maxwell is hiding from the bad-guys with Agent 66 in a computer or office room that was brightly lit.

So Maxwell proceeds to shoot out all the lights with his silenced automatic, but runs out of ammo with one light left. Agent 66 says, "Oh, here's the light switch…" she reaches up, and turns out the last light.

Now the bad guys are coming, and they're out of ammo…

That was classic.

[wheelgunslinger]

Diomed: It was the later color series without :( Rod Serling.

[Black Majik]

Got another one.

Lethal Weapon, Mel Gibson and Danny Glover at the shooting range.

You can hear brass falling on the ground from Mel Gibson's Beretta but no slide movement or brass ejecting from the gun. Oh and the cheesy computer generated flash :D

[Black Majik]

Oh yeah, can't forget Jet Li taking off the slide of the 92FS. :D

[ruckus3008]

warrior...
the movei was die hard 2.
now where's my prize?

[sterling180]

In Mad Max:The road Warrior:When Max is driving the Mack truck,back towards the beseiged communities settlement,he drives through the Humongouses camp,where the Humungous becomes so angry that he gets his S&W M29,loads it up and fires a shot at the trucks radiator-to try and halt it.Max tries to fire his shotgun,through the broken windsheild,but it misfires,-because of the severe corrosion of the shotgun cartridge.

This in real life would of meant that the shotgun could have exploded,in max's hand and could have killed him.

In Harry Potter and the Sourcerer's Stone,Harry Potters uncle Vernon angrily confronts Hagrid,with his double-barrelled side-by-side shotgun-after Hagrid breaks down the lighthouse door,to give Harry his acceptance letter from Hogwarts School.Vernon asked Hagrid to leave at once,by threatening to shoot him.

Hagrid ignores Vernon and proceeds towards him and bends Vernon's shotgun upwards causing Vernon to shoot the ceiling-with two live cartridges loaded inside.

Inspector Lewis.(The pilot episode,for the proposed tv series,that proceeded Inspector Morse.)

When Lewis and his Sergeant investigated the death of a girl who was shot at point-blank range,by a .38 pistol,they later found a Smith and Wesson .38 revolver- hidden inside of a shoe box-in the room of a maths student-at Oxford university.

A Smith and Wesson revolver and any other kind of standard-length revolver/auto-pistol,is banned under the Firearms Ammendment Act 1997 in the UK and Lewis could have arrested this kid for possession of a Section 5 weapon and the kid could have got five years in the slammer-along with unlicensed ammunition and firing a gun in a public place,other than a gunclub..

[MS .45]

How about all the times a person is threatening someone wiht a gun that is not ready to be fired(ie. slide locked back, hammer down on a 1911). The slide lock thing happened on '24' this season. One of the best is toward the end of "Face Off" in the church when Nicolas Cage does some sort of flip before firing at Travolta(who was unarmed at the time). Makes me laugh every time.

[Stauble]

2 here
one is the hole scene in mr and mrs smith when they are in the store and blasting away at the other people who are for some reason missing them.

2nd was in True Lies (i love that movie though) when Arnold's wife drops the Uzi down the stairs and every time it hits a stair, the gun fires, and kills some of the bad guys.

[Dan M.]

Tango & Cash, where in the opening moments, Sylvester Stallone is speeding down the road in his car after an 18 wheeler tank truck, zooms ahead of the tanker, skids to a stop blocking the road, climbs nonchalantly out of his car and draws a snubbie, stops the truck with one shot that causes a spectacular crash/explosion.

[Low-Sci]

For a number of reasons.

First, the serial killer fires a shot from a long distance at a car. You hear the shot long before you hear it hit his target, which happens to be a metal thermos of water. Hydrostatic shock does not exist for the purpose of that shot, because the thermos doesn't move, but water starts leaking out of the entry and exit holes.

Second, because when one friend is trying to rescue the other, she shoots the killer in the ear with his own rifle, then fails to figure out how the bolt-action mechanism works, and proceeds to swing the rifle by the barrel down on the serial killer's back twice. There's ammunition on the table behind her. If she had collected herself and just killed him, the rest of the agonizingly bad movie wouldn't have had to happen.

And let's not forget the serial killer's standing shot on a moving vehicle's back tire. He's supporting the rifle on the top of his car, he lines up the crosshairs perfectly on a vehicle's tire that's moving at 60 mph diagonally away from him, doesn't lead the shot, and scores a perfect hit.

[Zen21Tao]

I also like how good guys shoot a wall and ricochet the bullet around a room to eventually knock something (like a chandelier) down on the bad guys head. Just think A-Team where (if I recall correctly) only 2 people, one of which was Murdock and entire episode centered on this, were ever shot over the entire span of the series.

[P-35/53]

In the original Rambo movie- Stallone breaks thru a State Police roadblock and the troopers armed with M-16's race to fire on him . Half are firng in to the backs of there fellow Troopers. And any film product where someone points a Glock and the you hear the sound of a gun being thumb cocked.

[Still 2 Many Choices!?]

S.W.A.T., opening scene. Bad guy with AK is shaking the gun back and forth to simulate firing. No bolt movement, no smoke, no nothing:banghead: . I guess they had spent their ,"blank budget", on the squibs and bad actors :D ...

[Lebben-B]

I just remembered a scene I stumbled onto on one of the star trek shows. Don't ask me which one, I don't know or care. They were supposed to be in the 30's, and they had 1911's and Thompson's.

"A Piece of the Action"

All time worst offender: "Commando."

Ahh-nold as an M-60E3 with a belt that never gets any shorter. (Among many other flaws.)

Runner Up: "Missing in Action"

Saint Chuck comes up out of the water with an M60. You can see the red wax of the blank rounds hanging off the gun. (I can hear a roundhouse kick coming. One does not criticize Saint Chuck on an open forum.)

Honorable mention: "Equilibrium"

The Gun Kata? Gimme a break! The movie does redeem itself somewhat with the coolest beheading ever committed to film.

Mike

[Thefabulousfink]

Remembered another one.

In The Mummy with Brenden Fraiser he threatens the little weasel character with a 1911. As he points the gun at weasel's head you hear the sound of the hammer cocking, but you can clearly see that the hammer is down. I allways thought that this was more the fault of the sound people then the director or Fraiser b/c the threat is done in jest and he had no intention of killing weasel.


*weasel is the character w/ the fez whose name I can't remember.

[Zundfolge]

Ooh ... just thought of another one.

In Derailed (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398017/), the police detective investigating the shooting of his nephew was able to tell not only that the murder weapon was a 9mm, but that it was shot from a Smith & Wesson 5906 and kept looking for this specific model throughout the movie.

[Backfired]

Everytime John Wayne shot a revolver he used a punching motion rather than simply lining up the sights and squeezing the trigger. I guess that extra bit of forward progress gave the bullet a bit more velocity.

[CNYCacher]

The Zorro movie with Antonia Banderas, there is the evil military guy that we all are supposed to hate. The old man from the beginning of the movie rides a mine cart down a steep hill like a roller coaster, and jumps out as it reaches the end of the tracks, catapulting him through the air at the evil bad guy. As the old man is flying through the air at him with a war cry and a shovel over his head, the evil guy raises a pistol and shoots the old man, who promptly stops IMMEDIATELY in mid air and falls straight to the ground with a back-flip and dies.

Best/most realistic gun scene in a movie is in "Lightning Jack" (I think) where Paul Hogan is showing Cuba Gooding Jr the difference between the shotgun that cuba has and Jack's pistol. They each shoot at a barrel or something really close up, Jacks pistol makes a hole in it, then Cuba shoots with the shottie and obliterates the barrel. He is very impressed. Then they each shoot at the broadside of a barn about 30 yards away, Cuba's birdshot scatters off the barn with an appropriate sound, but no real effect on the barn. Jack shoots and his pistol knocks a board out of the wall. It was basically an accurate representation of the difference between the two weapons, and probably educational to someone who knows little about guns watching the movie.

[dev_null]

Let's not forget the classic Sergio Leone flicks where every shot causes a ricochet.

[htcw454]

The guns of Will Sonnet when they speed up the action to make their draws look faster, "No brag just fact" and I think it was an episode of the twilight zone where the bad guy gets shot by 5 or 6 people multiple times in one room where they all ambush him and he gets hit and killed by 1 bullet.

[gamachinist]

Thefabulousfink,
The little guy in the fez was named Benny iirc.

I remember the Uzi down the stairs scene from True Lies also and laugh about it.

One of my favorites was the tv series a couple of years ago with the bad guys turned good that had all the classic 60's and 70's cars in it.
I want one of those bullet and dent proof cars,since every round fired at them only made a spark as it bounced off.
I've noticed this a lot lately in most all movies and pictures.It's really hard to make those holes appear with blanks,haha.

Things like this are why my friends won't watch movies with me at home any more,since I can't just ignore the stupid errors and the editing errors also.

The laast "Marriachi" movie that Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek (the best thing about the whole movie, imo) is unreal with the scenes with the other two "players" and the instument cases with the rocket launcher etc.
The full auto in the case is halfway believeable,except for the problems you would have with keeping it pointed straight with only one hand.

[Elmer Snerd]

In the Matrix, during the lobby scene: Neo is running amok with twin VZ-61's (from the looks of it) that drop buckets of .223 brass. Neo is using his power as "The One" to do that. Nothing to see here, it was not a continuity error, move along, move along...:p

In The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Our Hero is fighting the Killer on a yacht. He tries to get a shotgun from a wall rack, but it is secured or otherwise stuck to the rack. He then tears the 3-gun rack from the wall and fires at the Bad Guy with an array of shotguns. He misses the Bad Guy, but does manage to sink the yacht.

In Hot Shots! Part Deux, Our Hero has killed hundreds of bad guys and runs out of ammo. He then throws a handful of ammunition and kills a bunch of bad guys. A Bad Guy fires a Final Shot, hitting Ramada. The shot is stopped by her locket. The entire round is stuck in it. These incidents may not count, since the movie was supposed to be an over-the-top parody. Should the thread title be changed to "The Most Ridiculous Unintentional Gun Moment In A Movie or TV Show"?

[bigun15]

Phone Booth

The sniper is watching a guy in the phone booth, threatening to shoot him if he doesn't do exactly what the sniper does. Every few minutes, the sniper operates the bolt on his rifle to make sure the guy doesn't get any ideas. Problem is, he does it six or seven times. I told the guy on the TV he should just walk out of the booth, because the sniper just ejected all his rounds.

He didn't listen to me.

[Thefabulousfink]

Of course, Benny:banghead:

Great movie, really good research on the types of weapons used.

Also, I figured out what causes all that noise when people are handling guns, that the sound of the sights aligning.:neener: Kind of like the tumblers in a lock.:D

[rritter]

Then there's "The Adventures of the Wilderness Family". It's not a gun flick, but it is one of the worst films ever made. It's so bad it's funny.

Toward the end of the movie, there's a scene where a grizzly bear is breaking into the cabin. Mom grabs the shotgun and waves it around hysterically. The bear whacks on a window shutter. Mom fires, and obliterates a bucket in the corner several feet from the window. The bear whacks on a different shutter. Mom fires again, blowing away the stovepipe (nowhere near the window). The bear starts breaking down the front door. Mom fires, and destroys something else nowhere near the door.

Then their long-lost pet black bear cub runs from the woods and attacks the grizzly. They wind up fighting it out in a clearing a good hundred yards from the cabin. Mom takes one last shot with the shotgun from the porch of the cabin and kills the grizzly, without touching the black bear he's wrestling with.

[proud2deviate]

"Die Hard With A Vengance"

Bruce Willis fires his last two shots from what appears to be a .38 snubby at about thirty yards. The bullets neatly sever two power lines which then crash into the rotors of the BG's helicoptor, causing a spectacular crash.:rolleyes:

"Romancing The Stone"

Michale Douglas firing a never-ending supply of shells from his short-barreled pump action. (He did reload at least once during the movie. . .)

[jerkface11]

Any of the many many tv shows and movies where someone empties their glock. But the slide isn't locked back and the gun goes CLICK CLICK CLICK. Double action glocks???

Or there's the Law and Order SVU episode where they're at the shooting range. The female cop is interveiwing a witness who is shooting a desert eagle. The witness tells her it's a .50 cal with a 12 round magazine.

[afasano]

Any movie or TV show where the officer reads the crook his rights in a calm voice after a LOUD GUNFIGHT. :D

[Jubei]

Bad Boys 2,

A teenage boy comes to pick up Martin Lawrence's daughter and Wil Smith plays "Bad Cop", he pulls out his Glock and is pointing it at the kid, finger on the trigger.

A good moment, in Miami Vice, not long after Crocket gets the Testarossa, they get into a shootout, and when it's over, he immediately runs to the other side of the car to check for bullet damage. When there isn't any, he can't believe it.

Jubei

[the naked prophet]

The opening scene of Ninja III: The Domination. About 150 cops all shooting at a ninja, who then kills all the cops. Then the cops find him, and surround him. Another 150 or so cops, standing in a circle roughly 40 feet in diameter, shoot him with M16s on full auto, shotguns, and revolvers. Then the ninja kills all the cops. Then another 50 cops show up and get in formation (the big circle) to shoot at the ninja, pump another couple hundred rounds into him, and the ninja disappears.

And that's all in the first 10 minutes of the movie.

[Matt King]

Any time they handle Guns on lost it's funny to watch them handle the guns, the way that you would handle a toy.

[Husker1911]

Any movie (there's probably hundreds) where the detective picks up the handgun with a pencil, sniffs, and declares, "Yes, this gun's been fired recently."!

[Grape Ape]

An episode of Alias where the hot chick’s goofy sidekick is pretending to be an arms dealer and a real arms dealer’s henchman points a pistol at the back of his head and cocks it. The dealer then says “If you really know your stuff you can identify that pistol by the sound”, or hero says, “It’s a 1911, but if you really meant it you would have released the safety.” Tactical Tupperware fans please note that you cannot set the safety until AFTER you cock the hammer.

I think it was in True Lies that Arnold wins in a prolonged gunfight (without silencers) in a tiled mens’ room (i.e. echo chamber) and then proceeds to engage in a WHISPERED conversation.

Law & Order: I can’t remember how many times the detectives would get to the scene and be told by the tech examining the body that the victim was shot with a .38. Even if the guy could see the bullet in the wound and tell that was about .357” in diameter how can he be sure it is not a .357 Mag, .38 super, .380, .357 Sig, 9mm para, 9x18 or some odd ball/wildcat?

[Husker1911]

In the classic True Grit, the Duke is firing his short barreled lever rifle down into the valley where the villains are. Kim Darby is kneeling beside the Duke, observing, and her head/ear is within a foot or two of the muzzle of the rifle. In real life she would have been writhing on the ground, her hands to her ears, her hearing badly damaged. Thanks to the magic of Hollywood, this scene doesn't occur.

[slabsides]

Relax, guys. We don't WANT the bad guys to have examples of skilled gun handling in movies! Gives us the edge, when some dumb gangsta does it like he seen on the toob! Every gun gaffe I see makes me happier: Delighted that only the few, the informed, have the brights to handle a shooter in the proper way.:rolleyes:

[VirgilCaine]

In Derailed, the police detective investigating the shooting of his nephew was able to tell not only that the murder weapon was a 9mm, but that it was shot from a Smith & Wesson 5906 and kept looking for this specific model throughout the movie.


They did this in Monk, also.

I told the guy on the TV he should just walk out of the booth, because the sniper just ejected all his rounds.

He didn't listen to me.

That's a great way to get killed when you have no idea how large the magazine is on his rifle.
An Enfield would still have three rounds left, a bolt-gun that uses M-14 magazines would have thirteen. Heck, if it was one of those Australian Internation Arms converted-Enfields that takes other, more popular mag types/cartridges, he could have had like 68 with a 75 round AK magazine.

It's a good bet, sure. But hey, do YOU want to take that chance?

[Nostratic]

Vic is sitting in the Strike Team's room at the barn, getting ready to clean his 1911 from the muzzle with the slide in battery. It just looked like Michael Chiklis had absolutely no idea what he was supposed to be doing.

[1wildbill]

When the hero, with a 1911 that wasn't his and he never fired before, shoots twice at each of two bad guy's riding away on horses, at night, and gets them both. Then his hand is shaking so badly he can't shoot the third one.

[ABTOMAT]

How about in movies where they pump a SxS shotgun, or have a "pump" sound for the gun?

Hot Shots: Part Deux was a hilarious movie. How about the Rambo parody part where he's shooting the M60 and ends up waist-deep in brass? Or when he shoots the chicken into the bad guy with a bow.

Can't believe no one mentioned the "cop killer" scene in Lethal Weapon 3 where Mel shoots through a bulldozer blade with a Mac-10.

[Zen21Tao]

Mel shoots through a bulldozer blade with a Mac-10.
Yes but the Mac-10 had those special pointed armor piercing "cop killer" bullets. :neener:

[EricTheBarbarian]

most ridiculous one I've ever seen was on scary movie 4. the guy shoots himself in the rear with a revolver without the hammer going back. he then shoots himself accidentally again in his appendage without the revolver chambering another round or the hammer going back. absolutely ridiculous

[EricTheBarbarian]

also in Boondock saints. from a handgun he obviously knew a 50 caliber slug from a handgun went through a brick wall:rolleyes: no question at all what caliber it was and definetly from a handgun. no forensics just look right at it

[DRZinn]

My memory could be failing me, but I seem to remember a scene in Blackhawk Down where they zoom in real tight on a SAW gunner, and he's loaded with blanks. Crimped ends and all.

[Limeyfellow]

You can't forget the classic scene from Missing In Action where Chuck Norris pops out of the water with an M60 in one hand and wipes out a platoon single handedly. That always makes me chuckle to see.

[rustymaggot]

a movie where a group of 3 guys wading thru a lagoon at the bottom of a waterfall get pelted with like 10 grenades from guys at the top. the grenades float when they hit the water. i think it was called 'platoon leader'

[50.]

It would have to be on arhh i think it was called love of a bullet ant the guy balenced on one hand while fireing at another person in the open and didn't get hit.:what:

[DoubleTapDrew]

Yes but the Mac-10 had those special pointed armor piercing "cop killer" bullets.

RIIIIIIGS!!! COP KILLERS!!! hahaha

What about Maximum Overdrive? I love that movie. How many times did they reload that LAWS? You have to always shoot it from the hip for maximum accuracy and tacticalness! :rolleyes:

[Zen21Tao]

On the subject of the Lethal Weapon movies, you also have to love (In the first movie) the smiley face Riggs shot on a target at what looked like about 50 yards away. Also there's the way Riggs flew up in the air and through a store window when he was shot with a shotgun.

[the naked prophet]

I just remembered - The Killer Bean 2 - just about the whole thing. But what can you expect from computer animated coffee beans toting automatic weapons at a rave?

[GrammatonCleric]

Lebben-B, Having seen Equilibrium, I'm sure you can recognize my handle. Yes, the action in that film is unrealistic, but it is pretty entertaining to me.


One of my personal favorites is the end of "Army of Darkness", Ash unloads around 50 rounds from a levergun at a witch/demon woman, while skating on a shopping cart to boot.

[Husker1911]

While immensely entertaining, there's some problems operating the "boomstick" in Army of Darkness!

Firing far too many times from a side by side shotgun, and even shooting backwards off the shoulder of Bruce Campbell. Still, one of my all time faves!

[Lebben-B]

Equilibrium

I didn't say it wasn't entertaining...just that whole "gun kata" thing made me choke on my bourbon.

Mike

[Legionnaire]

Paycheck (or any other film) where, as I recall, they show the entire cartridge flying through the air in painfully slow motion, not once, but multiple times.

Or when Afleck attaches a single (looks like a .40 caliber) round to a piece of equipment with a quick tie and the bullet is propelled as if it were encased in a chamber.

[Rock_Steady]

Not only does Ash's SXS shoot way too many rounds, and behind the back, etc.....you can hear the unmistakable "shucking" sound of a pumpgun between rounds. Sometimes every other round.

And from what I remember, he put about 6 rounds in one chest pocket of his 1970's shirt - and it never ran empty. :) Definitely one of my favorite movies.

[doggscube]

One of the Lethal Weapon movies had "cop killer" bullets as a sub-plot or something like that. When the BG was using a bulldozer/earthmover, Glover tossed a handgun to Gibson and notified him "cop killers!" So, naturally, teflon-coated brass bullets at pistol velocities penetrated the dozer's blade and dispatched the BG.

One show recently (Lost or CSI:LV) had a person draw a semiautomatic for which the foley artist supplied a SA revolver cocking sound. I know that's very common, but I let my wife in on the joke when she asked why I was laughing.

-Jeff

[dev_null]

But what can you expect from computer animated coffee beans toting automatic weapons at a rave?
You've got to be kidding me. :scrutiny:

[Offwhite]

I watched Precenct 13 last night & I feel like I wasted about an hour and forty minutes of my life. Everything about that movie was horrible.

[sarge83]

Tombstone where Doc. Holiday gets three rapid fire shots out of a double barrel shotgun during the gunfight at the OK Corral.

[notbubba]

I think with Tombstone it was a cut showing the same shot from another angle.

[AJAX22]

Sin City, during the scene where Benicio Del Toro's character pulls a 1911 on the prostitute, it alternates between hammer back, hammer down, hammer back, hammer down, then he calls attention to it by cocking it.

All time best movie gun blooper was American Cyborg Steel Warior, during the final battle between the terminator knockoffs under a pier where they are fighting to allow the woman to escape with the fetus in the tube (affectionatly refferd to by myself as fetal watter polo scene) the pistol is knocked out of the hero's hand and the fight continues as the pistol floats by the combatents.

[#shooter]

How about every A-Team episode? LMAO Everyone on that show had “magazines of holding” with unlimited ammo ready to go without reloading. It is fortunate that all the characters had personal defector shields; otherwise it would have been a bloodbath. I don’t recall any other movie or tv show where the ground was shot at as much as it was on the A-Team.

My other favorite activity is not beholden to one particular show or movie. It is when a character (good or bad) enters any area of danger and then racks the slide, spins the revolver, pumps the shotgun, or pulls the bolt back.

A dangerous gang is known to be in the warehouse.
The hero pumps his shotgun:
A. Before he travels to the warehouse
B. When he gets out of his car near warehouse
C. Before he enters the warehouse
D. Behind some crate he crawled to in the middle of the warehouse 30
feet from the villan

[Princecookie]

I don't remember much about the movie, it was a real stinker, but the most rediculous scene was when the bad guy got shot, and before falling down, you can actually see light through the hole that the bullet made.

[Black Majik]

Sin City, during the scene where Benicio Del Toro's character pulls a 1911 on the prostitute, it alternates between hammer back, hammer down, hammer back, hammer down, then he calls attention to it by cocking it.

Reminds me of when the 1911 slide flew into Del Toro's head. Of course, its just the slide. No barrel, no bushing, no plug and spring... :scrutiny:

[Offwhite]

Also in Sin City when the ho's, I'm sorry, the "prostitutes" are shooting on the tops of the roofs one of girls, I think she had an Uzi but I don't have the movie on hand, is shooting it & amazingly the recoil goes forward..not backward. It looks like some 3 year old kid shooting a fake gun.

[Deanimator]

I think with Tombstone it was a cut showing the same shot from another angle.
Tombstone is one of my three favorite westerns, along with The Outlaw Josie Wales and Big Jake. If there are any serious errors in it, I haven't seen them yet.

Regarding Big Jake, it has some errors and compromises in it, but it's still an entertaining movie. The 6.5mm "Bergmann" (which is really a Walther P-38) knocks people flat like a .500 Linebaugh when it's at best as powerful as a .32acp. Similarly, one of John Wayne's sons gives it to his brother because he can't handle it without emptying the magazine uncontrollably.

[The_Future]

Wallance and Gromit and The Wrong Trouseres:

Towards the end the penguin pulls a revolver out of nowhere. Also the Penguin shoots Gromit while he has a glass lamp shade on his head for a helmet and it does is glance off.

[pete f]

NOt a movie but a tv show.

West Wing.

The female press secretary is assigned a secret service agent(Marc Harmon) after a death threat or assassination attemp. She gets the hots for him and they go shooting in the basement of the whitehouse, He hands her a 4'' 686 and when she pulls the trigger gets knocked on her butt, litterally blown off her feet. She then asks what kind of cannon that was and he says, ".357.....Magnum", and she goes "ohhhhh Magnum,"

[Diomed]

There's a Killer Bean 2? When did it come out? The original was hysterical, I had a hard time breathing in spots.

Just a bean, trying to get some sleep.:D

[jerkface11]

You can't forget the classic scene from Missing In Action where Chuck Norris pops out of the water with an M60 in one hand and wipes out a platoon single handedly. That always makes me chuckle to see.

Hello it was CHUCK NORRIS. That gun didn't even need to be loaded.The blanks it fired probably killed all those extras. If Mr. Norris had grunted or yelled while firing the movie probably would have killed you too.

[usmarine0352_2005]

The movie "The Spartan" with Val Kilmer. He asks for a "sniper rifle" and he recieves an HK MP5 9mm with a laser on it. (That'll get u long distance.)

And on the show "COPS". A cop gets a pistol from a bad guy car and unloads it. He then looks at the camera and says, "See, Hollowpoints. These are made to penetrate Police vests."

(Wow, what a dumbass.)

[Black Majik]

Just watched "The Interpreter". At the end Nicole Kidman is theatening and pointing an uncocked 1911 at the Pres. of Matobo's head.:rolleyes:


Sometimes I wish I didn't know much about gun bloopers so I don't roll my eyes as much :D

[RustyShackelford]

Watch for these gun related scenes/mistakes/goofs:

In Beverly Hills Cop 2, when "Axel Foley" runs up to the big cement truck and jumps on, his pistol falls out of the back of his pants(this is why good cops use holsters ;) ).

In The Watcher, when James Spader's FBI agent points a Glock pistol at bad guy Keenu Reeves you can clearly see that the SFX/weapons guys put a safety plug in the Glock's barrel.

In the great action flick Street Justice(or Avenging Justice, check www.imdb.com ) with Lou Diamond Philips and Scott Glenn playing tough LAPD detectives(based on the real SIS unit), a cop gets shot and the squib(blank) sparks up and then starts a small fire on the actor's shirt. :eek:

In Kiss The Girls, the bad guy(a sworn LEO, :uhoh: ) calls Morgan Freeman's SIG P-226 9mm a "Glock". Whoops! :D

In the recent film: 16 Blocks, when Bruce Willis discharges his Glock pistol it jams(you can see the barrel and brass case get caught), watch for it because it's quick! ;)

For many years while watching Raiders of the Lost Ark I thought the film makers/producers made a big goof when they show Indy shooting round after round with his big revolver in the bar shootout. If you watch closely you see Indiana Jones run dry and pull a 1911a1 .45acp out of shoulder holster. What's strange is that Indy never really uses this 1911a1 .45acp again in any other Indiana Jones flicks. :scrutiny:

RS

[ABTOMAT]

What's strange is that Indy never really uses this 1911a1 .45acp again in any other Indiana Jones flicks.

If he used the 1911 you'd never get the neat Webley extractor scene in "Last Crusade." :)

[bouis]

Hmm... there's a scene in Goodfellas where Lorraine Bracco is pointing an (actually loaded!) S&W Chief's Special .38 right at the camera, that changes back and forth from blued to stainless over and over and over and over.

The worst scene, though, was with one of those fake "hardass" lady detectives that seem to be in every movie and tv show these days. I can't remember what movie it was, but she drops her keys under her car, pulls her service weapon, and starts dragging it across the concrete trying to pull her keys into her reach.

Ugh! Just thinking about it makes me cringe.

[Cromlech]

Frankp
Gun used correctly ? Two movies come to mind, Heat and Ronin... Heat has the best shootout I've ever seen in a movie oh and The Wild Bunch... great movie....

It could be something to do with Andy McNab (Ex-SAS) being heavily involved with the film 'Heat', he trained most of the cast in weapons etc. Robert DeNiro probably took that training with him into the film 'Ronin' which came after 'Heat'.

[jgeiken]

One of the best post's i've read in a long time guys.

In Black hawk down the guys that got separated are runningt to meet up with the rest of a squad, you can see the pyro from gunshots go up around the guy but the sound effects are of a totally quiet city. Guess one of the "skinny's" forked out the dough for a supressor. :neener:

In Swat when the "rouge" swat officer shoots down the chopper. His scope has a square reticle that moves and locks onto targets. Where do i get one for my .243 savage? Poor deer...

Its almost sacreligous to say this, but Red Dawn. The very beginning when the school teacher gets blasted by the full auto. The timing was off on the blood packs exploding on the teacher. Shot Shot Shot Shot.... (5 seconds later at 10 yards)... The teacher finally gets hit. Those Ruskies gotta learn to load their ammo a little hotter. 3 fps isnt gonna cut it during an invasion.

[Heraclid]

Maybe not a real good one here, but remember when the Joker takes out the Batwing with that ridiculous revolver? And besides, it is the Batwing after all! A mere bullet takes it out? C'mon.

[Diomed]

And besides, it is the Batwing after all! A mere bullet takes it out? C'mon.

He was using some of those COP KILLER bullets from Lethal Weapon. They're unstoppable!

[Husker1911]

In EVERY movie or tv show where the scene looks through the scope on the sniper rifle, the bullet impact will be exactly where the crosshairs are! No matter the distance or the wind, etc. I needs one of those scopes!

[VirgilCaine]

I watched Precenct 13 last night & I feel like I wasted about an hour and forty minutes of my life. Everything about that movie was horrible.


70's version or 21st century version?

Other than the Egregious gun errors--Mauser c96's? Like driving a Model T in a modern movie!--it was good.

[farmallmta]

Years ago I watched some totally forgetable old B&W film (meaning it was probably a huge hit in the 1930's) in which ragged, tattered, cheese-eating, Conscience-of-the Worlders were drunkenly storming the Bastille (That's where they used to lock up lots of French people... but not all of them). One of the crowd was clutching a musket, it clearly fires as evidenced by the puff of wig powder (or whatever Frenchies use for gunpowder), then he lifts it up, aims it, and then pretends to shoot, only no puff of smoke happens.

At the time, I laughed myself silly thinking it was a blooper in the movie. But considering the prowess of French Arms, I guess it may have been non-fiction documentary. Either way, it sure was a hoot to see.

[sterling180]

In the movie: Navy Seals,there is unrealistic handling of various weapons and of the stinger missile-launcher.I haven't seen the movie for years,so I can't remember much about those scenes,with mishaps in them,but they were openly critisized by many nitpickers on movie websites.

In the Bond movie:Tommorrow Never Dies,Near to the end of the movie,Bond and Wai Lin were locked in a gun battle with Elliot Carvers sailors,whilst on board his stealth-ship.In the gun battle Bond holds two Mp5s,then an Mp5 in one hand and his p99 handgun in the other-and he started shooting at the sailors accurately,by pointing his guns in different directions.

Stampher fired an M16A2M203 or M4/M203 assault-rifle/greande-launcher combination at Bond-which was very near him-and the blast from the grenade didn't injure him, in the slightest-despite the fact,the blast being inches away from him.

Elliot Carver had (I think) a silver Smith and Wesson handgun,when Bond and he had a standoff-when Bond took Gupta hostage and Carver holds Wai Lin at gun-point,to make things difficult for Bond.Carver eventually shoots Gupta,and after that the gun battle begins.Elliot Carver is later shouting at his sailors to put-out the fires around the areas,surrounding the cruise- missile-launcher and points,whilst he spoke with his gun,and then tells Stampher to kill Bond and Wai Lin.This was the last time we saw Carver's nickel/stainless steel gun.

So what had happend to it?I doubt he dropped it,because he wasn't much involved in the gun battle between Bond and Wai lin, and Bond couldn't of easily got to him anyway,because at that time he had many heavily armed men to protect him,from Bond and Wai Lin.

Before Carver met his gruesome death,at the hands of his seadrill,he is seen pistol-whipping bond and holding him at gun-point with a Glock17 9mm,that was probably taken from one of his dead sailors.

[carebear]

In Black hawk down the guys that got separated are runningt to meet up with the rest of a squad, you can see the pyro from gunshots go up around the guy but the sound effects are of a totally quiet city. Guess one of the "skinny's" forked out the dough for a supressor.

jgeiken,

I understood the character who's point of view we are using in that scene was deafened by his buddy's gunfire, like in the opening to Saving Pvt. Ryan.

If not it might be an error, or for some dramatic effect. I'll have to look again sometime.

[ALS]

Any gun battle in Hawaii Five O was a joke if it involved Jack Lord. Lord was an avid anti-gunner BTW. The one I remember was there was a Sniper on top of a 10 story building. Jack pulled one of his famous dead eye Steve Mcgarrett hip shot kills from the parking lot with his .38 special snub nose. :eek:

[Beachmaster]

The A Team cracks me up also! For a bunch of "Trained Spec Op Warriers" they couldn't hit a single person they aimed at!

My favorite stupid gun scene is from Arnold, when he beaks into the gun store, and presses the "Secret Button" behind the counter exposing a room filled with granades, class IIIs, and even Rocket launchers!

The other thing that cracks me up all the time in movies involve "SILENCERS". I see people screw a 6" suppressor onto a REVOLVER, and its as quiet as an airgun!

[sterling180]

For many years while watching Raiders of the Lost Ark I thought the film makers/producers made a big goof when they show Indy shooting round after round with his big revolver in the bar shootout. If you watch closely you see Indiana Jones run dry and pull a 1911a1 .45acp out of shoulder holster. What's strange is that Indy never really uses this 1911a1 .45acp again in any other Indiana Jones flicks.

Not a Colt 1911A1,but a Browning HI-Power 9mm pistol.If you watch the scene carefully, you will see that the gun Jones switches to,from his revolver is a Browning.

There is another scene when Jones cocks the slide of his Browning HI-Power,when the Nazis from the U-Boat-boarded the cargo-vessel in search of both he and Marion.

Jones was captured by the Nazis later on in the movie,when he decided to steal a rocket-launcher,to threaten to blow up the Ark,but ended up surrendering-because the Nazis surrounded him,whilst Belloq beforehand kept him talking,by calling his bluff and thus slightly imparing his judgement.It is possible that the Browning was taken away from him,for obvious reasons and because it was a brand-new pistol with a unique design-a double-capacity magazine.One the first to have been invented,at the time of when this movie was set in-1936.

The Browning would have been a year or less old,in this movie.There is a similar problem in Titanic,where the old guy has a Colt 1911,in his possession-a year after it was first manufactured and not for civillian sale-at that time.

There was one possibility of how Jones acquired his Browning;he was supposed to have beaten a Belgian Army officer at a game of Poker-who gave Jones his Browning,as a prize-for beating him.

I think that was one reason why Jones,didn't have that particular handgun in his possession,in the other two movies.

The Nazis in WW2 were very fond of the Brownings and issued them to the Waffen SS in WW2,after they had captured Belgium and put the FN factory under Nazi-control.

[VirgilCaine]

There was one movie where there was this black (as in African-American) black ops agent who was killing crooked cops, one in each state, and they showed him using a "silencer" that was about two inches long.

[qajaq59]

The old cowboy movies in the 40s when we would count to see who could shoot the most bullets without reloading. As I recall the winner was 18 shots and I think the Durango Kid did it.
How many of you old dudes remember Him? And I wonder why he has never shown up on TV?

[420Stainless]

The two intentionally funny gun scenes I can remember are:

The Naked Gun where OJ tries to kick a door in and instead of the door flying open, his foot penetrates the door with his leg getting stuck in the hole. Meanwhile all the bad guys inside are topping off magazines and loading revolvers.

I'm Gonna Get You Sucka where the Issic Hayes character fills his coat with a large assortment of weapons (pistols, revolvers, short barrel SG, etc.) and then slips on a cartridge spilled onto the ground. When he hits the floor everything in his coat fires until all the ammo is spent.

[1911JMB]

<The other thing that cracks me up all the time in movies involve "SILENCERS". I see people screw a 6" suppressor onto a REVOLVER, and its as quiet as an airgun!>

Thats not as bad as 24. In the couple of episodes I have seen, they try and make it look like a can half the size of a cigar could make a 9mm inaudible one room over.

[ABTOMAT]

Yeah, that's always bugged me. No one seems to realize that a good can is huge.

Speaking of supressors, in "Magnum Force" the crooked cop a slip-on can for his Colt Python. Say what?

[mogunner]

Lets not forget the range Scene in S.W.A.T, when TJ and Hondo are firing. TJ's 45 keeps firing with the slide back and out of battery.

[Magic79]

"Grosse Pointe Blank" where Dan Aykroyd and John Cusack have a gunfight in the kitchen. Aykroyd with a pair of S&W revolvers and Cusack with a couple of semi autos. Hilarious.

[tgunner]

One of my favorites is in the first Predator movie when one of the soldiers is mowing down the jungle with the ELECTRIC powered GAU-17 minigun. Am I missing something or was one of the other soldiers packing the generator on his back. And another thing 4000 rpm x 20 seconds equals 1300 rounds plus the weight of the gun itself. A touch heavy even for Jesse Ventura, not to mention the 250 lbs of recoil.:D

[Husker1911]

Ah, but Jesse was chewing his tobacco plug, which turned him into a "sexual tyrannasaurus!"

[Rock_Steady]

Actually, if you read Jesse's autobiography (or watch the featurette on the new anniversary DVD) he actually packed that weapon for a good amount of the filming - with two motorcycle batteries daisy chained to provide power. Some of the firing for 'Ol Painless was shot with him packing all of that crud. :) At least, if you believe the documentary.

[RustyShackelford]

I could swear Jones uses a old 1911a1 .45acp not a 9mm High Power. It could be a Browning P-35 9mm but it does really look like a .45acp 1911a1. I'll check the DVD sometime, ;) .

Here are a few more good tv/film bits;

In a scene from the 80s hit; Magnum PI, Tom Magnum pulls his full size 1911A1 .45 from out of his cowboy boot! :uhoh:
Now Tom Selleck is 6'04" but even he would trouble walking around with a .45acp in his boot all day in HI! Come on! :scrutiny:

In Die Hard 3, Bruce Willis/LT John MacClaine shoots 3 or 4 terrorists in a cramped elevator with his 92F 9mm in his Galco shoulder holster. ***!?! Wouldn't the loud noise and spent brass and gunpowder be hard to deal with? Also how could you shoot a semi auto pistol 3/4 times like that?

Rusty S
;)

[carebear]

Rusty,

IIRC, per the Indygear website it was supposed to be a 1911 but the Colts don't run on blanks very well. Apparently it's common in movies for HP's to be subbed in because the look pretty close but can run blanks without stuttering.

[Zen21Tao]

Wayne's World 2 was on cable this afternoon. There is a scene where Garth's new "girlfriend" is trying to "imply" he should killer her husband. In that scene Garth finds a pearl handled 1911 in his girlfriend’s purse which she refers to as a “45 Magnum with the clip filed down and the safeties off.” :D

[panzermk2]

OK not gun but saving pvt ryan.
The sock sticky bomb that blows up a Tiger tank in one of its most heavily armord areas.

AND a tiger tank the size of a ford focus but I'm getting picky

Law and Order all of them with the hammer clicking back on Glocks

[pete f]

cans are not that big anymore.....

http://www.impactguns.com/store/sf_suppressors.html
http://www.surefire.com/maxexp/main/co_disp/displ/pgrfnbr/517/sesent/00

http://www.impactguns.com/store/product2296.html

[the naked prophet]

You've got to be kidding me.

Do a google search for "the killer bean" and you'll find it. Nevermind, here it is - http://www.jefflew.com/videos.html

There's a Killer Bean 2? When did it come out? The original was hysterical, I had a hard time breathing in spots.

Just a bean, trying to get some sleep.

That one IS KB2. The first one was really low quality. KB3 was supposed to come out last year, but I only saw the trailer and haven't heard anything since then. KB2 has been remastered though.

[Legionnaire]

OK not gun but saving pvt ryan.
The sock sticky bomb that blows up a Tiger tank in one of its most heavily armord areas.I'll have to go watch the DVD again, but as I recall, all they did with the "stickies" was blow the track off to immobilize the tank.

[jason10mm]

There are actually suppressors just a few inches long. I forget who makes them though, one of the big manufactuers. They are not legal for civilian use because they have to be repacked quite often and the ATF has deemed the repacking material to be an entire suppressor in and of themselves. Imagine having to spend $200 and a background check every few weeks to keep your supressor in working order. I doubt it is hush puppy quiet either.

Actually, the new MI-3 has pretty good gun handeling, aside from a silly scene where Cruise tosses a Beretta to another agent. It spins perfectly so it slips right in her hand.

***VERY MILD SPOILER****
The movie has a pretty cool scene where he explains how to use the Beretta to someone, then that someone proceeds to shoot several trained agents. Silly yes, but at least he told them how to change a magazine!

[Arethusa]

MILD SPOILER WARNING

I just saw MI3. The explanation of the 92 was actually really solid, and that person didn't exactly go on to kill piles of people with it afterwards. I could buy the Beretta toss. It was stylized, yeah, but that comes with the territory, and it wasn't unbelievable; I was still really surprised at how realistic the action was.

Except for the scene where Cruise shoots down what appears to be an A10 with a G36 and then can't shoot down a helicopter with the rest of his mag.

[John G]

**still more MI3 SPOILERS**



It wasn't an A-10 that Cruise shot down, it was a UAV, or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, aka a remote-controlled drone. I actually liked that scene, and the G36 looked great on screen. :cool: H

[Arethusa]

That actually makes a lot more sense (and explains why that A10 was so damn small). Still mildly silly, but not beyond the conceit of the genre.

In my defense, the quality of the copy I saw was not very... Hm. I should stop here.

[Foxtrot427]

dropping UZI in True Lies, the cocking glocks, the sliding shotguns, tiny supressors, chicks who always hit perfectly on target shooting for the first time WITH their eyes closed.

[akodo]

I don't recall what movie, but some swat-esque guys go into a train car apparently with supressed MP5s or somesuch, with laser sights. They fire and kill everyone in the traincar, and the audience is shown the outside of the traincar, with laserbeams shooting out of it. Apparently the bulletholes are such that the sighting beam goes right out of them, plus the laser beams last onyl for a split second, like, really, like it was shooting lasers, or the sight beam was set to pulse a second before the trigger was pulled or something totally useless like that.

of course the lethal weapon scene where a laser sight allows the cop to line up a bank shot, where he bounces the bullet off of some metal and into a guy behind cover.

Another was some cheesy movie with a baldwin in it, he and girl are hiding out at an apartment, guys attack, fire a whole bunch, then you see laser dots moving around. The two have to sneak by, avoiding the laser beams as if touching the beam would be like breaking a trip-wire and causing a bullet to fire. They don't really worry about being out in the open in front of the window where an eyeball can detect them, they only worry about not making contact with the laserbeams

[Waywardmonk]

How about Eraser? the bad guys have x-ray scopes ( still waiting to hear the physics behind that one ) and are firing the old standby of depleted uranium bullets from what is essentially a handheld rail gun.

[jerkyman45]

What about every single movie where the main character gets blasted in the chest several times but thanks to his bullet proof vest he is indestructable. In the Punisher Frank gets shot about 4 times with a shotgun and it only serves to knock him backwards, but not knock him down or break any ribs. I do like Charles Bronson, but in Death Wish 3 he gets shot several times in the chest and merely pulls the bullets from his vest. It was as if he got shot with a BB gun. Then of course theres back to the future where the doc gets blown away by a Libyan with an AK-47...but he too is unscathed.

I want one of these miracle bullet proof vests.

[Carl]

Well to be fair, it did knock the Doc out for a little while.

[mbs357]

Grandma was watching one of the daily soap operas and I just happened buy.
There was a lady and a male standing next to a car. It looked like she had just gotten out and he came up from behind the car. She was next to the driver's door, and he was at the rear bumper. For some reason she drew a medium sized revolver on him...she looked so scared (the camera was behind her, facing the man). She kind of stepped forward a bit, fired...and get this...
The guy did the slow motion lean back thing exactly like Neo did in the first movie except with a lot cheesier graphics...
The camera followed the bullet as it hit a fence in the distance, and then he slapped the gun out of her hand.

[planesncopters]

Hi ! I don't think this, movie moment was too rediculous but I have A Question: .What is the name of a movie that starts off when a sniper kills two men at an airport while getting off the plane? I think he used a big rifle on a tripod shot down into place with a concrete ram-set gun! I havent seen it in several (many )years and in the end of the movie the good guy , hurt and injured bolts down a sniper rifle on top of a car ( ram-set gun agian ) and kills the bad guy driving away down a straight but hilly road and takes him out as he crests the top of the hill! anyne remember this movie?

[rbernie]

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